We've got a client who has 1,000's of excel documents that were created in Excel 2000 (or earlier). Which they still use to this day (Currently on Excel 2010)
A few users are experiencing issue with ...

We have a Microsoft Failover Cluster with dynamic disks managed by Veritas Storage Foundation.
Today the sysadmins added a new disk for SQL Server but the cluster size on the volume was wrong, so I ...

I'm trying to set up an ext3 filesystem on a RAID 6 array (with 6 disks) on XenServer 6.2 linux.
All the help I can find tells me to use the -E stride=xx,stripe-width=xx options.
However my version ...

I am trying to install ESXi 5.5 to a computer that ESXi 5.1 is installed before. I am doing installation using the CD-Rom. After I select the boot options in the boot menu, installation starts. After ...

Through the use of several code snippets here and in VMware's website, I've created the following code that works:
Connect-ViServer server
$body = Get-Folder -name vm | Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select ...

What is the differences between quick format and normal format in windows?
I Just formatted my external Hard Drive by quick format and it took a minute to complete and then I just started formatting ...

I'm learning about dedicated servers and have a very simple question.
In windows server 2008, is it a good practice to fast format your HDs for the first time? Or should i perform a slow one?
Which ...

Can anyone point in the right direction on how to remove SWAP out of a RAID1 configuration on Ubuntu 10.04 server? According to the Ubuntu Advanced installation guide, here, it said to add swap to the ...

want to send log files from Ubuntu Server via email using sendemail but the when I do all the text in the email is all in one big mess ( one space between words new lines and spacing not brought into ...

I have a new 3.5" 2 TB hard drive. Using a Windows 7 laptop + a docking station, I quick formatted it to NTFS. Next, I put this hard drive on a docking station that's hooked via eSata to a rack server ...

My website runs on a dedicated Debian LAMP server . I would like to update the system (let's say I have a pretty old Debian version and I want to reinstall everything from scratch)
What strategy can ...

I would like to log the %D and %O log format strings in apache 2.
They are the time taken to serve a request in microseconds and the total bytes sent.
This is useful to generate stats of the server ...

I've exported a Mantis project from one server to another and despite the MySQL SQL file (from which it was populated) showing:
(15375,'\r\n1. Log out\r\n\r\n2. When logging in, start ...
The final ...

Apparently, redirects in categories are always meant to appear in italics. In our MediaWiki (1.13.2) this is almost always not the case. This is not a problem, but sometimes they suddenly appear in ...

Is it possible to somehow configure PowerShell to add a new line after executing a command? IronPython and other console programs which I use doesn't always finish it's output with a \n and because of ...

I've successfully partitioned a logical volume (/dev/dm-2) using sfdisk and fdisk -l now reports there to be a partition /dev/dm-2p1 as desired. However, this device does not seem to exist in /dev/ ...

I have a windows 2008 64 bit server running as a guest on VMWare ESXi 4 Update 01 build-208167 which runs on top of an HP Server with SAS RAID 5 disks. It is performing well with 3 GB RAM.
I wanted ...

I have over 100 computers that I need to format. Do you have an idea to complete the transaction as quickly as possible? (The best of them all at once). For information computer farm is a mix between ...

I have a script that emails certain linux log entries to me, and I read the email in MS Outlook.
The problem is that all the lines run together with no linefeeds between the lines.
To address this I ...

I would like to globally set the Linux date format to ISO, which looks roughly like this:
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
2009-03-16 15:20:00
With varying levels of detail, such as omitting time, seconds, etc.
...

I heard about people that used tools to recover deleted data and found a lot of unusual data, that after discovered that the their brand new pc in truth was used...
When discarding HD's, as sysadmin, ...